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DIY Dry Erase Board

I recently came across a 'Make your own art journal banner' on pinterest and I really liked the idea of a banner. I have also been learning to make watercolor backgrounds so, I wanted to put the two together and make something else...A dry erase board!

People generally make dry erase boards with glass and frames. I decided to do it a little differently and therefore decided to use sandwich bag instead of the glass and make my own banner frame out of cardboard.

Step 1: Watercolor Background

On a plain white paper I painted a water color background of my choice. You can see how to paint it here.

Step 2: Prep

- Cut open the sandwich bag and cut a 24 x 13.8 cm rectangular section from it. - After the paint had dried, I cut the painted background also to the 24 x 13.8 cm rectangle.

Step 3: Outline and Frame

- I cut out one of the cardboard into the desired shape for the banner and also hollowed it out to form the frame.

Step 4: Outline

- Then, I stacked the cardboard, background and the sandwich bag in the order shown in the picture. - I cut the sandwich paper, the background and the other cardboard piece also to the same outline shape as the frame. - After all the pieces have been cut and aligned, I stapled them together.

Step 5:

- I covered the front of the frame with white paper and punched two holes on the top of the chain.